ANTI-gun campaigners are to march on Liverpool to bring people out against gun crime.

Victory Outreach, who have backed the ECHO’s Liverpool Unites campaign, have organised a rally for Saturday, November 17 that will see them and other supporters march two miles into the city centre in silence – to represent the walls of silence that often surround gun crime.

With reformed gang members who have seen the light among their number, the last Victory Outreach Stop The Violence march took place through the tough streets of south Los Angeles and they hope to make a mark in Liverpool.

Pastor Basil Reynolds, of Victory Outreach, said: “It’s our aim to highlight the issue of guns and the culture that surrounds it but also to present an answer to our city.

“We don’t usually think of history as being shaped by silence but that is what surrounds gun violence.

“As philosopher Edmund Burke said, ‘The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing’.

“The time has come for us to break down the walls of silence and fear that surround gang culture and say we stand against the violence that is killing our next and now generations and bring a message of hope to a generation spiralling out of control.”

Marchers can meet in Botanic Road, by the Botanic Park, Edge Hill, at 11.30am on November 17. There will be a rally at the Wellington Memorial.

Home office ministers met residents of Croxteth and Norris Green on Thursday night to hear about gun crime.

Dave Saville, of Croxteth Country Park Residents Association, said: “It was good they were here. It shows they are listening to what we have to say.